Motivational Quotes

Love

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Love

The story of a love is not important -- what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Hayes, Helen

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love, you want the other person.

Anderson, Margaret

Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Jung, Carl

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity.

Baudrillard, Jean

Do all things with love.

Mandino, Og

There's a lot to be said for self-delusionment when it comes to matters of the heart.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Kent, Sister Corita

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

Gravity. It keeps you rooted to the ground. In space, there's not any gravity. You just kind of leave your feet and go floating around. Is that what being in love is like?

Josh Brand and John Falsey

10.

Love can neither be bought or sold, its only price is love.

Proverb

11.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

John Scalzi

12.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

Van Gogh, Vincent

13.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

14.

Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

King Jr. Martin Luther

15.

We love because it's the only true adventure.

Giovanni, Nikki

16.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.

William Shakespeare

17.

What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

18.

Learn what you are and be such.

Pindar

19.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. [Roman 13:9]

Bible

20.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Jung

21.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Mother Teresa

22.

In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek.

Proverb, French

23.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.

Taylor, Jeremy

24.

In the end, I decide that the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That the unfinished business between us. Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

Sara Zarr

25.

Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.

Wieder, Marcia

26.

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

Jerome, St.

27.

When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

28.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Eliot, T. S.

29.

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

30.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love: Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent.

William Shakespeare

31.

Love's reason's without reason.

William Shakespeare

32.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; where little fear grows great, great love grows there.

William Shakespeare

34.

Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

Maupassant, Guy de

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We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Szasz, Thomas

36.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

King Jr. Martin Luther

37.

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

W. Somerset Maugham

38.

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.

Theresa of Lisieux, St.

39.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Browning, Robert

40.

Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it.

Judalet, Curtis

41.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.

Rowland, Helen

42.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

Voltaire

43.

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. [I Corinthians]

Bible

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Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.